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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK? software with or without encouraging messages, she writes. “If

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Citizen scientists come from all walks of life and have made invaluable contributions to scientific knowledge and understanding. Citizen science allows the common public to participate in important scientific studies, partnering with scientists and helping them with work crucial to the enhancement of human knowledge.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

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Nevertheless, educators are already employing ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools for skills enhancement in teaching and research (Crompton and Burke, 2023). In their research projects, my students co-create at three levels: student-client, student-supervisor, and student/supervisor-AI assistant.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

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By acknowledging the individual experiences PSTs bring, we hope to foster a sense of community where co-construction of knowledge can take place. Gurpreet Sahmbi is an educator at the University of Toronto in mathematics education and research methods in teacher education.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

Faculty Focus

Nevertheless, educators are already employing ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools for skills enhancement in teaching and research (Crompton and Burke, 2023). In their research projects, my students co-create at three levels: student-client, student-supervisor, and student/supervisor-AI assistant.

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How to Go Back to School, Higher-Ed Leadership Edition

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Develop Your Knowledge of Structures, Research and Writing Styles In a doctoral program, the structures of your written work will be similar. You will develop many literature reviews and will regularly need to create similar structures for research papers.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

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Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself. For classroom use, participants use a camera to respond to a prompt.